The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-10-05
Farm Notes,

Farm Notes.
When there is q sorghum-sugar factory
in every school district, Kansas expects TO
be the sweetest state in the union.
One hop-raiser in Kent county, England,
had over one thousand pickers in his em.
ploy this season for nearly three weeks.
Ellwanger & Barry, the noted nursery
men, of Rochester, N. Y, have over hun
dred varieties of grapes growing on their
grounds.
Northern farmers need not be at much
pains to fatten their hogs this fall, for the
supply OF genuine, pure, kettle rendered
cotton-seed oil in the south is simply i'm
mense.
The North American Bee-Keep ers' socie.
ty and the Northwestern Bee-Keepsrs' So
clety will meet In joint convention az the
Commercial Hotel. corner L ,ke and Dsar.
born streets, in Chicago. on Wednesday.
Thursday and Friday, November Is. IL and
Is, 1887.
An attempt Is being made to establish a
cooperative milk association In every par
ish in Great Britain. The plan is to dis
pense with middlemen entirely. Farmers
are to get more for their milk than they
now do, while consumers will pay less and
receive better article.
A large crop of apples, it is said, will be
grown If colony of bees is placsd IN the
orchard. The pollen Is rabbed from their
bodies against the pistils OF thousands Of
flowers, which thus become fertilzsd.
Many of the strange freaks of hybridizing
varieties are due to the agency of bees.
Sows that have farrowed can easily vean
off tine pigs and get in good condition 70
be fatted for slaughter by Christmas. 1t is
too late In the season to usa them as
breeders, as no more filters should come 10
before spring, and il will not pay to keep
the sows over so long, Where a SOW is an
exceptionally good mother, however, she
should be trained.
Several farmers in Kent County, Egg
| land, have this season set up jam manufsc-
tories, and ara now turaing out hundreds
of tons of Jam, the grocers in the towns
and country places taking their supplies
from them instead of from London houses.
An East Kent agricaIturist who initiated
the new industry last season is stated to
have found it most prof table business
paying better than farming.
at the British Association, Canon iris
tram read an interesting paper on the va
rions herds of wild cattle which still exist
in Great Britain. The Lyme park herd
has ceased TO exist, but there are now six
/ herds of these picturesque white cattle
| viz one at Chillingham, northumberland;
at Cadzow, Lanarkshire; Licking, Norfolk;
i Chsrtley Staffordshire; Vaynor, Carnar-
vonshire, and Somerford, Cheshire.
A sudden death. under singular circum.
stances has occurred a. Crosby, Eogland
| ON Wednesday, September IA. William
Nassau, aged 73, shoemaker of Little
Crosby, went into his garden, accompanied
| by his son, to attend to a beehive. Mas
sam was strung three times on the nose.
He Immediately complained Of being IN.
| well, and commenced to shake violently.
In a few minutes he tainted aud died.
In a certain periodical it is stated the
| Jews in Moldavia have q method of making
| honey into hard white sugar, which is
employed by the distillers of Dantzic to
make their liquors. The process consists
in exposing the honey to the frost during
three weeks, sheltered from the sun aud
the snow, IN vase of some material, which
is a bad conductor of heat. The honey
does not freeze, b utbscomes hard as sugar,
Transparent and white.
The late Mr.. Staniforth's herd of short
horns was sold at Storrs, England, recently,
and excellent prices were obtained, the
average for thirty. seven head being$78 los.
Several of the best lots were bought by NJ.
Jacob Wilson, but it was not known for
whom he was bidding, and there was
commissioner bidding for the queen, bat
none of the animals went to Windsor, as
the limit was passed in every case. Ouly
one lot was purchased to 60 abroad. The
flock OF st. Kilda sheep also sold very well.
The only reason advanced against shade
trees in pastures is that COWS are inclined
to spend too much OF their time under
them, and consequently give less milk
than they would il no shade existed This
| is not the case. Cows that rest o portion
of the time under trees feed more at night
than do those that have no shade in their
pastures. The more comfortably AID
quietly we keep our COWS, the more milk
they Will produces; and we contend that
COWS thsS nave snaoy group OF trees 90 ne
under will produce as much milk as cows
do without shade. la many places OF linn
| tied extent it is often desirable to ex tend
the plantation beyond the garden portion
OF the grounds. and one Is clad TO see that
it may be done without injury to the graz
ing interests.
M. Pasteur has q rival WHO'S said to have
cured many cases of hydrophobia, This
person, hitherto ito fame UNKNOWN is
one Philip McGovern, of Bawnboy, County
Cavan. His secret remedy, it appears has
been handed down to him from a long line
of illustrious progenltors-for, like many
! Irisbmen, his ancestry 10 OF the most re-
spectacle and remote antiquity-and he
has never failed to effect a cure in the most
serious cases. Letters published in the
: Dublin papers, from highly respectable
} people, cite many instances, well anthem
ticated, of his successful treatment of in
fected persons. Moreover, Mr.. McGovern' 8
treatment is said to last only three days,
md to consist of the administration of q
, decoction of 'herbs and simples', and a
regulated dietary.
A London paper says: In reference to
the correspondence upon the inhumanity
} the live cattle traffic across the Atlantic, II
may be Of interest to state that last year,